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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] long lived programs
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:38:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0656AE-2164-468B-8C98-578F8B2F16EA@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PfGSsv_EwxOHAmx=LrXwcdxMYSLUQ3mBX6bQ4RgtY20w@mail.gmail.com>

May be case itself is such a historical artifact?  AFAIK all non-roman scripts are without case distinction. 

> On Apr 5, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> Two favorite examples are <CR><LF> and case folding.
> 
> Both are historical artifacts which made sense in an older age, but hardware outgrew then.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-05 21:03 Norman Wilson
2018-04-05 21:23 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-05 21:38   ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-04-06  2:03     ` Random832
2018-04-06  4:27       ` Warner Losh
2018-04-06  4:31         ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:58         ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-06  5:02           ` Jon Steinhart
2018-04-06  4:29       ` Steve Johnson
2018-04-06  5:57       ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-06 21:52         ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-05 22:46   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-05 23:23   ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-05 23:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2018-04-06  0:05       ` Toby Thain
2018-04-06  4:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 15:00 ` Tony Finch
2018-04-07 20:41 ` Paul Winalski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-06 22:33 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-07  1:01 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-07  1:09   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-23 18:27 [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus Bakul Shah
2018-03-23 20:50 ` [TUHS] long lived programs Steve Johnson
2018-03-23 21:07   ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 15:51 Ron Natalie
2018-03-23 15:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-23 16:25   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-03-23 16:59     ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-03-23 17:31       ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-23 16:32   ` Ron Natalie

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